President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

More than two years after launching its special unit targeting very wealthy Americans, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has completed less than 40 audits.   The IRS’s Global High Wealth Industry Group, created to review the tax filings of indi...   read more

A sampling of raw chicken sold in grocery stores across the United States revealed nearly half of the meat contained the bacteria E. coli.   According to the group that conducted the study, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the ...   read more

Legislation intended to “jumpstart” job creation may instead do more to allow fraud on Wall Street.   Developed by the White House, and signed by President Barack Obama on April 5, the “Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act” (or JOBS Act) swept th...   read more

Price spikes of crude oil during the middle of the last decade prompted the United States to reduce its reliance on petroleum imports. Since 2005, gross oil imports have declined 17%, according to the Congressional Research Service, while gross oi...   read more

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated how much the roles of women in the U.S. military have expanded.   During a decade’s worth of conflict, more than 283,000 women were deployed to the two countries. Hundreds of them served in harm’s wa...   read more

If four of the losing Republican presidential candidates are telling the truth, then spiritual endorsement is not a sign of primary success.   This week, Mitt Romney said goodbye to his last serious challenger to the GOP nomination. Rick Santoru...   read more

Jay Bauer, an intelligence analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago, is suing the FBI over a single pushup. Bauer was an assistant professor in communications sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, when he left to ...   read more

The federal government wants to obtain the capability to hack into video game consoles, all in the name of thwarting terrorism and pedophiles.   Obscure Technologies, a small San Francisco-based company that performs computer forensics, has rece...   read more

The Department of Defense has allowed companies to obtain contracts intended for disabled-veteran owned businesses by doing little more than check boxes on a form, thanks to a self-verify system that provides no accountability.   The Pentagon’s ...   read more

A federal appellate court has ruled that two Secret Service agents must face charges for violating the free speech rights of protesters by engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” during the administration of President George W. Bush.   On October...   read more

Although the current U.S. Supreme Court has the reputation of being pro-business, corporations would be wise not to press their luck with the high court when it comes to tax fraud. Two university law professors found that, historically, businesses...   read more

Dr. Robert M. Groves announced on Tuesday that he was resigning his position as director of the U.S. Census Bureau in order to take over as provost of Georgetown University. “I’m an academic at heart,” Groves told The Washington Post. He will leav...   read more

At a time when 12.7 million unemployed Americans are in need of jobs, the U.S. government is spending less on job training than it did during better economic times.   Federal funding for the “primary training program for dislocated workers,” acc...   read more

No one can say the U.S. hasn’t been generous towards Israel since it was founded in 1948.   Over a period of 64 years (including the 2013 budget request), the U.S. has given Israel more than $115 billion in military and foreign aid, which averag...   read more

The U.S. military intends to conduct the trial of the alleged mastermind of the attack on USS Cole behind closed doors, much to consternation of news organizations.   The McClatchy Co., The Washington Post and The New York Times filed a legal pr...   read more

A leading contender for Egypt’s presidency who has run on an ultra-nationalist, anti-foreign platform has been disqualified from running because his mother reportedly is a U.S. citizen.   Authorities with the nation’s electoral commission said H...   read more